This month’s topic focuses on climate change - undoubtedly a big topic today that will only increase in prominence through our lifetimes. Climate change is a notoriously complex issue, and it’s been that way for far longer than many of us likely realize. In fact, this topic alone could take entire years worth of this podcast series. For that reason, we are in your headphones today to cover climate change from a broad perspective, and more importantly, to cover our relationship with the earth’s changing climate as governments, businesses, communities, and individuals. And, most important of all, we will cover what we should be thinking about, where we should be looking to educate ourselves, and what we should be doing to successfully act as good stewards, good businesses, good governments, and good people.
Colin Jost pretty much nailed it in 2018 when speaking about climate change from an individual perspective on Saturday Night Live - “We don’t really worry about climate change because it’s too overwhelming and we’re already in too deep. It’s like if you owe your bookie $1,000, you’re like, ‘OK, I’ve got to pay this dude back.’ But if you owe your bookie $1 million dollars, you’re like, ‘I guess I’m just going to die.’” When people think about reducing the impacts of climate change, they tend to focus on the easy things: using renewable sources for electricity generation, or electrifying passenger cars. But we need to make progress in other big areas. Too many big areas to count. So, where do we begin and how do we start? There are enough articles, podcasts, and unsettling statistics and charts to go ‘round. We are here to discuss the impacts our political, business, communal, and individual decisions have on climate change, and how the earth’s rapidly changing climate impacts the decisions we make at each of those levels. Most importantly, we are here to talk about why it matters, why you should be thinking about it at at least some level of consciousness frequently, and where we can see the relationship different groups have with climate changing in the near future.
Joining us for September’s episode of ‘So, what’s next?’ to talk about the vast and oftentimes overwhelming subject is professor Matt Lindstrom. Matt is an SJU alum, the Edward L. Henry Professor of Political Science at CSB/SJU, and the Director of the Eugene J. McCarthy Center for Public Policy and Civic Engagement at St. John's University. He is the co-director CSB/SJU Summer Leadership Fellows Program and he has served as Co-Director for the CSB/SJU Washington D.C. Summer Study Program and has edited, co-authored, and written a number of works on environmental politics, policy, and culture.
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This month’s topic focuses on climate change - undoubtedly a big topic today that will only increase in prominence through our lifetimes. Climate change is a notoriously complex issue, and it’s been that way for far longer than many of us likely realize. In fact, this topic alone could take entire years worth of this podcast series. For that reason, we are in your headphones today to cover climate change from a broad perspective, and more importantly, to cover our relationship with the earth’s changing climate as governments, businesses, communities, and individuals. And, most important of all, we will cover what we should be thinking about, where we should be looking to educate ourselves, and what we should be doing to successfully act as good stewards, good businesses, good governments, and good people.
Colin Jost pretty much nailed it in 2018 when speaking about climate change from an individual perspective on Saturday Night Live - “We don’t really worry about climate change because it’s too overwhelming and we’re already in too deep. It’s like if you owe your bookie $1,000, you’re like, ‘OK, I’ve got to pay this dude back.’ But if you owe your bookie $1 million dollars, you’re like, ‘I guess I’m just going to die.’” When people think about reducing the impacts of climate change, they tend to focus on the easy things: using renewable sources for electricity generation, or electrifying passenger cars. But we need to make progress in other big areas. Too many big areas to count. So, where do we begin and how do we start? There are enough articles, podcasts, and unsettling statistics and charts to go ‘round. We are here to discuss the impacts our political, business, communal, and individual decisions have on climate change, and how the earth’s rapidly changing climate impacts the decisions we make at each of those levels. Most importantly, we are here to talk about why it matters, why you should be thinking about it at at least some level of consciousness frequently, and where we can see the relationship different groups have with climate changing in the near future.
Joining us for September’s episode of ‘So, what’s next?’ to talk about the vast and oftentimes overwhelming subject is professor Matt Lindstrom. Matt is an SJU alum, the Edward L. Henry Professor of Political Science at CSB/SJU, and the Director of the Eugene J. McCarthy Center for Public Policy and Civic Engagement at St. John's University. He is the co-director CSB/SJU Summer Leadership Fellows Program and he has served as Co-Director for the CSB/SJU Washington D.C. Summer Study Program and has edited, co-authored, and written a number of works on environmental politics, policy, and culture.